Unable to update my Bash in Mac by MacPorts

Question

I updated unsuccessfully my Bash to 3.2.48 by MacPorts.

It seems that I do not have it active, since I get

echo $BASH_VERSION
3.2.17(1)-release
         


        

Answer 1

You can switch your login shell, from your existing Mac OS X login shell (by default its /bin/bash shipped with Mac OS X), to MacPorts /opt/local/bin/bash just by using the following shell script:

#!/opt/local/bin/bash
if [ `grep /opt/local/bin/bash /etc/shells` ]; 
then 
    echo /opt/local/bin/bash | chsh -s /opt/local/bin/bash;     
else 
    echo /opt/local/bin/bash | sudo tee -a /etc/shells; 
    chsh -s /opt/local/bin/bash; 
fi